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DepingNuke:
I have about 5 months before i ship off to boot camp and i am thinking about brushing up and teaching myself some things that i will see later on at A school nuclear power school. I was wondering if any of you people know of any books that would be helpful (of course they cant have everything because its classified) but stuff that i should brush up on such as electronics and so forth. I have also been looking at the different rates. EM, ET, and MM and i would like to know more about each of these, i know of course what i "WANT" to do means very little, but i know most people going in want to get ET for some reason.

Also i heard that its a good idea to make friends with some people in the class ahead of you so they can tell you what to expect, so i assume that having 6 or 7 people from my recruting office/my highschool leaving for the nuclear program within the next 6 months is a plus.

Any tips for success would be a help

*i also have shaggy hair, is it a good idea to get my hair cut before leaving for boot?

Roll Tide:

--- Quote from: DepingNuke on Aug 14, 2004, 12:54 ---*i also have shaggy hair, is it a good idea to get my hair cut before leaving for boot?

--- End quote ---

First things first: let it grow to your belt if you want. Nobody in your recruit company will recognize you anyway after boot haircuts unless you shave it the week before you get there.

Take a look around the site, and check out the previous threads in the Navy Nuke section. After you have that background, you will be more prepared to accept the advice we give here appropriately. For example, when I tell you that the best position in the Navy if you are following up with a commercial OPS career is submarine MM, you should realize there are some others on this board that feel just as strongly about the other half-dozen choices available.

As far as brushing up, that depends on how long it has been. If you had to study for your grade on the ASVAB / NFQT then study is a good idea. If you took it cold, you will be fine without it.

Study material: any high school Algebra II, physics, and chemistry level books will be appropriate. Don't try to learn electronics before you go in: the Navy will find a way for it to be different than the rest of the planet and it will just confuse you.

Cheating is bad. If a member of a class ahead of you says, "Study trigonometry functions while in DEP" that is OK, but detailed stuff can get you both booted out of the Nuke field. You know what I mean, sample questions that aren't made available by the instructors.

Learn to be very careful in what you say and hear. Your integrity is a prize to be valued, and without it you are useless to the Nuke Field.

DepingNuke:
Thanks I took the asvab and the other test completely cold and did fairly well i guess.

Also, i didnt mean cheating off people who went to highschool with me, just what to brush up on and so forth like you said.

Right now basied on the knowledge i have i would put like ET and MM ahead of EM.

damad1:
IT seemed to me that ET's did a small portion of electronics interaction, and mainly operations, which is a completely different world. I was a MM, and all my buds that were ET's complained that they never got to do maintenence since they were to junior. It might of been the command structure, or maybe they stunk at maintenence, but that sticks in my mind.

If you have a strong aptitude in something, mechanics or electrical, then try for that path. It seemed to me in basic, then "A" school ,and in NPS that alot of guys wanted to be ET's, but when I received my ET cross training, I asked yself why anyone would want to work in this field. To each his own I suppose, but the comments of my best friend while I was an instructor at NY, whom was a ET, sticks out in y mind. He hated being an ET because of the orientation as a operator, while mechanics and electricians got to work in their rate and operate as nukes.

This may be uninformed, as I said I was a mechanic, but it should give you some idea of the ramblings of an ex-nuke.

Bottom line, do what interests you. Roll Tide has it down, algebra, chemistry, some physics if you have the time.

Good luck to you!

Anton:
DepingNuke
 I am currently enlisted at NPS as an EM.
First "A" school: MMs only have 14 weeks , EMs 22 weeks and ETs 24. If i was brushing up on anything it would only be Math Elec. And some mechanics. You dont see chem physics or anything "nuclear" until NPS.
Second Rates: I belive EM is the best rating . From what ive heard from all three rates is that MMs are pretty much Plumbers. ETs are wierd and if you dont understand you will once you get here. EMs are pretty much laid back.
During most of "A" school EMs and ETs train togather and learn most of the same stuff. ETs learn advance trouble shooting and EMs learn electrical Distribution. And picking your rate dosent mean much the navy will put you where the need you. about 60% MMs 25% EMs and 15% ETs. Good luck with boot and "A" school.

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